Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-13
ELECTRICAL SUCAR-MAKINC.
Commissioner Oolmans Account Of the Re.
cent Experiments at Fort Scott Kan.
AN IMPORTANT INVENTION
The Commissioner Thinks the New
Process VIII Redeem Our SUI
gar 1ntcrcsts-Thc Presi-
dent on Bond Sales.
Sugar Made By ELECTRICITY.

ASHINGTON, SCpt, ls,---SOmullSSlOneY
Colman has just returned from an official
visit to Fort Scott, Kan, where the depart,
ment of agriculture is conducting expert,
ments in making sugar from sorghum by the
diffusion process and expresses himself as
being delighted with results obtained already.
lie says the experiment consists in the trial
of new process in making sugar in this
country, which dispenses entirely with costly
and ponderous mills, steam engines, etc,
and uses far simpler aid and employs less
expensive method for extracting
juice. by which all the saccharine
matter is obtained instead of about half as
heretofore.
The new process is called the "Diffusion
of SaturatiOn" process The cane is cut into
chips and passed into battery OF twelve cells
each holding a ton of chips. Hol water is
then applied. which rapidly exhausts the sac
scarcely trace OF II left The cells are en-
tirey practical, being speedily filled, manip-
ulated and emptied one man attending
f For, the ssnt sntF' 9persSnb saSabe he wokns @ n
up every twenty hours l50 tons of cane. maxi
ing therefrom 1900 pounds of sugar or more.
yield of from ten to 100 tons per acre was
being secured, which would produce by this
sugar This sugar is worth by the car load
81 cents per pound. Nor Is this all. To
every ton Of cane, aside from the sugar In it,
there are some ten or twelve gallons OF mo-
lasses, aud also seed raised upon the cane
amounting to about live bushels per acre ana
just as good for feeding all kinds OF stock as
Indian corn. Indeed, the seed, it is estimated,
Will pay for raising the cane, which Is merit
possessed by no other sugar plant The de.
partment is also conducting satisfactory eX.
periments IN New Jersey
"rhe results of these experiments upon the
country will believe, be most beneficiary.
said Commissioner Colman. "Our nations Is
paying 100000 annually to sugar producers
of other countries, and 1t we have demon.
sraed that we Snn p1otaoy as prGt
is matter of the highest Importance
to the country. 1t viii not only
keep this money at home, but will save to
our people $4,000, 900 annually in customs
duties. l cannot see why our people should
not 20 to making sugar. "A complete sugar
factory will cost about us much as Touring
mill and can be run at great profit accord,
glad to raise cane at 81 per ton, and ut that
it pays better ,than other farm products.
look upon these experiments as being as
the cotton gin. They have demOnstI ated that
we have q sugar plant that can be grown ana
converted prOfitably into sugar south of the
39lh parallel, out OF reach of early frosts, to
the Gulf of Mexico and that the country can
and will be independent of every other ma
tion for sugar. This new process will be
tried on southern cane"
CIeveland's Views On Bond Sales.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-In regard to the
purchase of bonds by the government the
president said to-day to a representative Of
the Associated press: "Criticsms upon tho
action of the treasury department for refusal
to accept any of the offers of bonds last We'd
neSday it seems to me are inconSlderately
made in the nrst place the offers were
higher, considering the lapse of time they
had to run, than they had heretofore
been and did not present favorable
terms to the government. In the next place
the number offered was much less than OIL
former occasions. These facts may well give
| rise to the. inference that people holding bonds
preferred them to money. The government
wants to bny bonds to answer the require
ments of the law relative to the sinking fund
! and it is willing to advance the interest on
| such bonds as are not bought, and thus sup
| ply any immediate demand there may be for
money. These two movements of the treas
| ury department are calculated to release
a good deal OF money and turn
| it into business chance ii required. But
they are both executive acts and must be
| performed with regard to the interests OF the
| government as one of the parties to the
transaction. There is no disposition to drive
a sharp bargain with holders of bonds, but IL
will not do to say there is no side daa to bar
the interest advanced, as their interest alone
dictates. The. competition offered In
the sale of bonds is just the way
to fix their price and will be
fairly pursued as long as it seems to protect
| against an undue advantage on the part OF
the sellers and results in offers which upon
business considerations ought to regulate
their value as between private parties. The
government ought not to be expected regard
less of any public purpose, to identity itsell
with private business or speculation.